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June 30th, 2008
Filed Under: England, Sports Junk, friends
Spain defeats Germany to end a 44 year drought of earning a football championship, and I watched the entire game in an Irish pub overrun by Spainards.
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June 25th, 2008
Filed Under: News, humor
An inspiring comedic genius passed away a few days ago, and will certainly be missed but thanks for the laughs and food for thought through your comedy.
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June 24th, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, Design, Snapshots, friends
While hanging out in Dublin I made sure before I skipped town again that I’d drop by the new design studio of my former LCC classmates and see what’s percolating with the Irish trifecta of Diarmuid, Dave and Jamie.
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June 23rd, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, galleries
What a stressful day, but in the end I did have some things to be cheerful about like visiting the famous Powerscourt near Bray, or “Bray-jieng” as some of the locals refer to it as.
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June 22nd, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, Snapshots, friends
After checking out Malahide Castle I meet up with a friend of my mom who was very sweet and personable and 6+ months pregnant!
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June 21st, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, The Usual Rant, Time Wasters, friends
Dave did a bang-up job of getting me lost trying to find Jamie’s flat, in the rain no less, but at least I got to eat at Elephant & Castle’s to ease the pain of that debacle.
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June 20th, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, Special Occasions, friends, galleries
Flew into Dublin today to kick off a long weekend by first celebrating my Irish homie Dave’s birthday and then to meet up with Pete a friend of friend connection.
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June 18th, 2008
Filed Under: Sports Junk
Kevin Garnet, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen are all NBA champions for the first time.
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June 18th, 2008
Filed Under: Sports Junk
New York Mets Manager Willie Randolph was fired today. I think it’s a lot of b.s. but the Mets feel that a change needs to happen and that this was to move to make. Expect that the did it in a less than classy way for a classy type person…buy firing him after a west [...]
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June 18th, 2008
Filed Under: England, Sports Junk
The Euro Cup of 2008 is all the rage here in London despite England’s national team not even making it to the tournament (sorry lads) but Italy and France were at it again and this time around the French got shutout by Italians 2-0. I watch some of the game at a pub near Oxford [...]
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June 17th, 2008
Filed Under: Sports Junk
Tiger wins the 2008 U.S. Open in dramatic playoff style, bringing him closer to tying Jack Nicklaus record.
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June 16th, 2008
Filed Under: News, The Usual Rant
Gay rights tool a step closer to equality today in California.
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June 14th, 2008
Filed Under: News, The Usual Rant, politics
An untimely passing of one of the truly finest journalist of this generation.
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June 13th, 2008
Filed Under: Sports Junk
The Lakers are all but finished in this year’s finals as they blow a 24 point lead on the Celtics.
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June 10th, 2008
Filed Under: Special Occasions, friends
My MCAD pals Mike and Lisa are now parents with their first child, a boy named Taylor.
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June 8th, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, England, Kool Stuff, NYC, galleries
Despite the 3,000+ miles between us I managed to scope out Jason once again back in New York via a HUGE telescope here in London.
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June 7th, 2008
Filed Under: humor, politics
I shutter at the thought of Hillary Clinton as the V.P. candidate for Barack Obama’s presidential ticket, sorry but I just don’t see how that match-up would work.
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June 3rd, 2008
Filed Under: News, music
Music legend Ellas McDaniel, a.k.a. Bo Diddley, passed away yesterday but leaves the rest of us all the gifts of his pioneering music.
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June 2nd, 2008
Filed Under: Sports Junk
The Lakers matchup against the Celtics in the NBA finals once again and as much as I’m a K.G. fan I shutter at the thought of Boston winning another professional sporting championship title.
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June 1st, 2008
Filed Under: Adventures & Travels, England, Special Occasions, Video Clips, politics
Recently elected mayor of London Boris Johnson will issue a ban on public drinking on the Tube and other TfL transport services starting today at midnight today, so last night a bunch of booze-savvy protesters took the opportunity to ride the tube intelligently inebriated one last time in which I participated and observed with my buddy Matt.
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